"There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego."
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"If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics."
"[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians"
"Thoughts are not subject to duty."
"Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it."
"Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing."
"This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out."
"Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly."
"Subject is known by what she sees."
"I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers."
"There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that."
"The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject."
"The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being."
"I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me."
"Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it."
"I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject."
"Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects."
"Race is a very sensitive subject."
"The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained."
"You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts."